This crossword No. 22025 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22025 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
4-across – Financial restriction on the Mafia covering the Old Lady in the morning : MOBCAP
6-across – Leave covering for creature on the lake : FURLOUGH
9-across – Sound start to 23, a 24 for 22 23 : SHEEPS
10-across – See 9 : CLOTHING
11-across – With competent direction, singing about hell by one in employment can bring good out of evil : ABLESSINGIN
15-across – Head girl comes to tea : CRUMPET
17-across – Don’t start another meal without striking – it’s rude : UNCOUTH
18-across – Golding’s the author capable of prophesy? : LONGSIGHTED
22-across – Bird with broken wing loves dodging hungry predators : RAVENING
23-across – See 22 : WOLVES
24-across – See 11 : DISGUISE
25-across – One follows backbones : STERNA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Undermine plan that’s raised grass : PAMPAS
2-down – Fool, keeping up badly, massages tummy pain : MULLIGRUBS
3-down – Half play a note for love? : PLATONIC
4-down – Bad fit for French gentleman: cast him out! : MISMATCH
5-down – Libel – mud being thrown, by gum! : BDELLIUM
7-down – One of many reported, you idiot! : UNIT
8-down – Chief under the influence : HIGH
12-down – Concentration camping on the loch : INTENTNESS
13-down – Plant genetically modified on September the fourth in transport : CULTIVAR
14-down – Hair wrapped round poems from the old country : RHODESIA
16-down – Game, the first in the Rising Sun, finished behind the arras : POLONIUS
19-down – Painter, soldier and engineer : GIOTTO
20-down – Reminder of p-punishment : PROD
21-down – Holy place where painters go for ‘oney? : IVES
This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.